ALM Busycircuits ASQ-1 Cheat Sheet
Recently I came upon an ALM Busycircuits ALM 035, the ASQ-1 Eurorack Multimode Sequencer. It’s a marvelous thing. Two tracks of CV and Gate sequencing, four tracks of trigger sequencing, and a quantizer. It’s “SH-101 style” in the sense that there is no screen, and the premise is step, hold, rest type sequencing, or tap sequencing for your tracks, but I found after about 2 minutes with this instrument that it needed to be out of my modular case and into a case of its own. So I scored a 4MS Pod32 powered case, and I emancipated this wonderful sequencer onto the console of my spaceship for use sequencing anything – the modular (of course), the MC-202, SH-101, Jupiter-8, Pro-One and triggering all sorts of things too – my beloved Boss HC-2, PC-2 pedals, percussion modules, and anything and everything with a trigger input. But the best thing about this is not just that it’s got the classic analog style that I love so much, but that it has upheld this creative standard of autonomy, and it’s given us memory locations. Something the venerable CSQ-600 only has 4 of, and my darling CSQ-100 only has two of. I can save patterns, trigger tracks, and quantizer settings and load them individually, or all together at once. It’s ace. It’s so fun.
I found the manual to be written so beautifully in English that I couldn’t understand it. The key combination section prioritized the key combinations rather than the functions, and since I never (ever) go searching to figure out what holding the HOLD button, and then tapping the RST key does, rather I would search for how to MUTE a track. So I set out to decipher this manual and make a list of the functions, and their associated key combinations. That became tis document which I am not sharing with you, because I love you, and I want to celebrate and encourage you to make music, to play live, and to have fun.
Here is version 0.1A (the debut release) and it is for Firmware version 008. I will update this as things develop, and try to keep this side document, approved by, but not associated with ALM themselves. I didn’t design this, I didn’t invent anything, I am just making clear lists so that I can develop muscle memory, and not need this sheet anymore, and hopefully that will be helpful to you too.
Enjoy!
ALM Busycircuits ASQ-1 Cheat Sheet v.0.1A Initial Release | 8.5 x 11 black and white print for folding into a zine | PDF Format
2 Comments
Many many thanks for your Roland Boutique manuals. Your work and dedication are awesome.
Will we ever see one for the JD-08?
@Kowalski
Thank you, my pleasure. I think my Roland boutique manual days are behind me. I got into that while I was touring and recording my album ‘HOME’ and needed something to do to relax after 12 hour studio days. I really loved the first three boutiques, still use them live, and I’m a big fan of the SE-02, TR-09 and 08 as well as the 06, but since I didn’t have the others, I didn’t think it was right to make a manual for something which wasn’t in front of me. If I ever find myself with another boutique in my lap, you can be sure I’ll make a Missing Manual for it, but I’m not sure that’s where my synth collection is headed these days.